I do the occasional interview. Lately, I’ve noticed that a lot of the resumés we get seem to follow a very specific, and very troubling, template. Back in my day, when hair bands roamed the earth, the general preference was for one-page resumés that succinctly hit the highlights: pithy summations of the important elements of [...]
From TG Daily:
Windows 7 has beaten boy wizard Harry Potter to become the biggest pre-order product of all time in the UK, says Amazon.
Also this, from David Pogue:
Yeah, that’s the thing. With 90-whatever percent of the market, Microsoft would have a hit if it did nothing but change the Windows color [...]
From Mosberg’s very positive review of Windows 7:
Unfortunately, XP owners, the biggest body of Windows users, won’t be able to do that. They’ll have to wipe out their hard disks after backing up their files elsewhere, then install Windows 7, then restore their personal files, then re-install all their programs from the original [...]
From a sobering assessment of the state of software quality, by Les Hatton:
So how good is good? In computer science, we regrettably operate in a largely measurement free zone. Very few experiments are done and even fewer results are published. This has been noted a number of times over the years by researchers [...]
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